Search This Blog

Training Week May 9th- May 15

My son has run his first 5K! I am a very proud Momma! and could not stop telling him how happy and proud I was the entire weekend! This week was a little exhausting, with little sun and chilly temperatures, but we had an awesome week of activity. Today I'm linking up with Holly and Tricia for their Weekly Wrap post.

TrainingTuesday - 2 miles tempo runWednesday - Zumba with Denise, 3 miles easy run, 20 minutes of weights. Saturday- Kennett Run 5KOn Tuesday the Baseball game went a little longer than it was supposed to, by about 10 minutes. I was supposed to do a 3 miles tempo run, but by the time I got home I was really tired, and very sleepy. But still put on my stuff and went for my fun, but cut it to 2 miles.

Wednesday was another busy day at work. I planned my afternoon on the plan of doing zumba for 1 hour, run for 3 miles and weights, meaning I had my lunch, a snack and another small meal before leaving work. But a co-worker gave me a soft pretzel right before my second meal, which messed up the rest of my eating.

I know that the pretzel could have been turned down, but I also know that pretzel was delicious and I regret almost nothing.

By the time I got home after Zumba and running, I was really hungry again, because my second meal went half uneaten. After 16 minutes of weights, I told Roger that I was done. If I kept going, my body would be mad at me. So did my planks, and started dinner. Still didn't regret that pretzel. Let me say again, because it doesn't get said enough. To all teachers, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO! Your patience for spending 6 hours / day at school with our children, is very sincerely appreciated!

On Friday, I spend half of the day at my son's school. Before I started training for the Marathon, I wanted to come in and help on my day off, so after completing the Marathon, I cleared my Fridays off to help out at school. Arrived there at 9, after breakfast, this many kids before 10am requires a good breakfast and strong coffee. I helped out with the Math Olympics. We measured things, helped make paper airplanes, collected 6 pencils (... I kept finding pencils on the floor... ) settled a fight between kids, consoled a couple crying kids, and opened food snacks! All before lunch!

My boy handing out marshmallows in his class

After school, We also helped on the annual May Fair Festival, which did not get rained out, like we all had feared. Sadly, we only did 1 glitter tattoo.

My glitter tattoo table

My son climbing the wall at the festival, this was the inside section.

On Saturday we woke up to a sunny and warm day for the Kennett Run 5K. I'll do a recap on that race later this week. But I am happy to report that My son finished his 5K, and we all had a great time.

Kennett Square calls itself the Mushroom Capital of the World... but really the neighboring towns are the ones growing the mushrooms... and Mexican Men and Women are the ones who drive this industry... underpaid workers I might add.

My sister set up the bibs and shirts on the coffee table the night before the race.

I did not beat my 5K Personal Record, but I did beat my record for this Course, which has been a long work in progress. I also got 2nd place for my age group, with a time of 25.59. *** 5.17.16 Correction: I got 16th place on the 30-39 Age Group, but 2nd on the 30-34. The timing agency posted the results incorrectly when I checked on Saturday. So I'm not as Speedy awesome as I am portraying myself to me... just weird awesome! **Miles - 8Zumba- 1 hourWeights - 20 minutesI hope you had an awesome weekend!Where do you stand on soft pretzels? What dip do you like for your pretzel? Cheese, mustard, honey mustard?

Thank you Marcia! You haven't had a pretzel in years ?! What!? No way! It's not weird to me that you never dipped it... But I tend to eat my bagels without cream cheese, so I might not be the best judge.

WOW! Congratulations to your son on his first 5K - he is going to get hooked now, especially after all the inspiration he gets from you!!! Congratulations also on your AG placement, that is worth enormous celebration. Look at your spectacular form in your yoga tree pose. You look fabulous!!!

We don't have soft pretzels in France but good for you for not regretting it ! Sometimes we just need to listen to our bodies and enjoy the food. Well, all the time actually.Congrats to your son, that is a major accomplishment !

Your son's teacher is very lucky to have you help in the classroom! I am sure she appreciates it more than you know. I would love to have parents in my classroom but I teach older kids so i'm sure that would just be awkward..lol.

That is great your son ran a 5K! and the rock climbing, it good to conquer those fears when they are young :) helps good lifelong habits. You ran a blazing 5K yourself! What a great time. Congrats on the AG!! A love soft pretzels...with cheese, please lol I have not been super disciplined these days so yep, I'd eat it and not regret it at all :)

Congratulations on a great 5k finish time! How exciting that your son ran his first 5k too! I hope he enjoyed it enough to want to do it again! I adore soft pretzels but have to save them for extra special occasions. They are good dipped in cheese and that sweet caramel sauce too (but not at the same time -- HA!) I certainly could never teach but am so appreciative of those that do. Thanks for linking with us Ana!